Yes, yes - check my profile - I am indeed presently living abroad for work but I have always been a flag-waving American.

At the moment some members of this august forum - which I have adored for many years, long before I was "golux" - believe Sarah can beat Hillary... Believe America will come to its senses on homosexual everything... Believe there will be some "push back," believe that for the first time in history (well, sine Appomatox) the Federal government will stop expending exponentially... Believe that Career Congresscritters will once again deign to "represent" their constituents... Believe that our Moslem president and his minions at the Church of Anthropogenic Global Warming can somehow use their out-of-control, unaccountable spy agencies to audit conservatives into regaining, for America, some miniscule thread of respect in this world... Believe that if we try - if we really try - hard enough to teach our kids how to F each other up the A in grade school and on Sesame Street, then Americans might have jobs and hope again.

But I'm just not seeing it. I really do believe that our country is sick. Mortally sick.

Yep, I've read Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. You should too. It'll take you many months, but it's worth doing. The similarities are uncanny. Shockingly so.

I guess I still love America and that for which she "stood." I have sacrificed much for my patriotism as so many of us have - and I have been blessed by our wonderful society. I love America. I LOVE America.

But the Founders' message is real. Ayn Rand's message is real. The LORD and His Commandments are real. I am not a Christian, but if America were a Church (in my case a synagogue,) I'd leave it.

If the RNC were a Church I would leave it.

I have a family. I am afraid for my children's brains, their sexuality, their knowledge of good and evil, their morality. I have lived in many places and can assure you ours is no longer the land of the free.

I am tired of arguing with European (Jews, mainly) about how America isn't crime-ridden, filled with bums and fags and pedophiles and drug addicts and perverted teachers and communists and obese, immoral, undereducated welfare zombies.

America is. We are. After 9/11 we elected a freakin' guy named (probably) Barack Hussein Obama, about whom we know less than nothing. We did this. Is Satan in charge of America?

Tonight I told the Aesop fable about the dog and the wolf to my kids. I love to draw these stories out with details, sounds, et cetera.

For the first time I realized I was being a hypocrite comparing Americans to the wild, free wolf rather than the enslaved, fat, stupid dog, and it choked me up.

My hope is dead. Even a revolution seems impossible. We have traded all of our liberties for safety, and delight in the process, sucking on Soma and flocking to Wal Mart for more American flag decals stamped by Chinese preteens.

One possibility is Russia. You’d be looking at a known set of problems along with one of the trickier languages to learn, but Russia has fully reverted to its ancient roots as a Christian nation and it is the only major power Christian nation at present.

I’ve heard some of the former Soviet Bloc countries are good, (Poland, Austria etc). They have a Christian revival since the fall of the Soviet Union, and have so far resisted Western liberalism, however as part of the European Union there is constant pressure for them to conform on issues like gay rights.

“As an ordained U.U. Reverend, I suggest not fireworks, but sackcloth and ashes for this Fourth of July!”

As to “where to go”, I will tell you that, as I sat in the barracks in Thailand, all those things that made ‘home’ special to me, were what I clung to, while out of country.
There is no ‘there’, that will ever replace what America was, before Barack Hussein Obama. What is in your heart, is what makes this place special, and no stinking Communist can change THAT!

One possibility is Russia. Youd be looking at a known set of problems along with one of the trickier languages to learn, but Russia has fully reverted to its ancient roots as a Christian nation and it is the only major power Christian nation at present.

It's certainly ironic that the heart of the "Godless" Soviet Union, has argueably replaced the West as the seat of Christian morality in the world. I actually forsee a time, perhaps fifty years out, after the country is firmly dominated by the Black/Hispanic coalition and whites are little more than a persecuted minority, that a reverse migration will occur with White Christian's fleeing en masse to Russia.

Poland is good, but the language is difficult and the climate sucks. I looked into Italy, but they have a global asset tax as of last year and heavily armed, aggressive “Guarda Finanza” (Tax SWAT teams.)

I have not lived in the USA for 20 years, moved out when Clinton won. Haven’t been back since except for visits.

I didn’t leave America, America left me (and us.)
You cannot live in an American city the size of mine and walk the streets at night unarmed like I and my children do.
It’s about to get worse. A lot worse.

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